[ CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PAGE COUNT ]
A month ago I did a quick count of the first 100 or so entries in the "recent posts" to this forum. I did the same again today:
2014-06-21 ! 2014-07-25 !
---------------+---------------+
Posts ! % ! Posts ! % ! Category
-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
8 | 6.7 | 14 | 12.6 | Off-topic
4 | 3.3 | 7 | 6.3 | Gambling
18 | 15.0 | 12 | 10.8 | Bitcoin mining
37 | 30.8 | 22 | 19.8 | Bitcoin non-mining
53 | 44.2 | 56 | 50.5 | Altcoins (including mining)
-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
120 | 100.0 | 111 | 100.0 | TOTAL
The numbers are not comparable however because the samples were taken at different hours, and that makes a lot of difference, it seems.
Today's sample was taken when China was asleep, so there were only a couple of entries in Chinese. The June 21 sample was taken a few hours later, during working hours in China, and had 26 posts in Chinese.
In fact, more than half of the June posts about "Bitcoin non-mining" (19 of 37) were in Chinese; of the 22 July posts, none were. So posts about bitcoin proper, excluding mining and posts from China, actually increased: from 18/120 (15%) to 22/111 (20%).
On the other hand, there were no posts from China about "Bitcoin mining" in either sample, so those did decrease from 15% to 11%.
As for "Altcoins (including mning)", excluding the Chinese posts there were 48/120 (40.0%) in June, 53/111 (47.7%) in July.
Next time I should try to spread the sample evenly over a 24 h period.
